Sentences with phrase «theological work in»

There can be, and is, extensive discussion of the question as to whether or not God exists that is not theological in the sense of my definition, and there is a great deal of theological work in the sense of my definition that does not treat of God.

In an excited letter to Spalatin (on this occasion he was considered highly suitable for a discussion of the text), dated 14 December 1516, Luther wrote: «If reading a pure and solid theology, which is available in German and is of a quality closest to that of the Fathers, might please you, then get yourself the sermons of Johann Tauler, the Dominican... I have seen no theological work in Latin or German that is more sound and more in harmony with the gospel than this... Taste it and see how sweet the Lord is, [a quotation from the Psalms] after you have first tried and realised how bitter is whatever we are».

We seemed to assume at the consultation, as we do in much of theological work in the church, that developing a theological identity is more or less a matter of picking a system of thought, be it feminist, neo-orthodox, process, liturgical or liberation, that fits our own concerns and agendas.

Our theological work in the school and parish will be informed, hopefully, by a new modesty that values imagination.

In this sense, it is fortunate that Bonhoeffer never completed his theological work in any systematic way.

But the upsurge of interest in his work has made it clear, on the basis of such theological works in Chinese as The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven of 1603, that Ricci was and remained an orthodox Catholic believer, whose very orthodoxy it was that impelled him to take seriously the integrity of Chinese traditions.

Not exact matches

In the past, these groups have perceived conservatives to be suspect on racism, while on the other hand they worked with liberals in the fight for civil rights, and several of their theological heroes are crucial forerunners if not advocates of radicalisIn the past, these groups have perceived conservatives to be suspect on racism, while on the other hand they worked with liberals in the fight for civil rights, and several of their theological heroes are crucial forerunners if not advocates of radicalisin the fight for civil rights, and several of their theological heroes are crucial forerunners if not advocates of radicalism.

Rather, the theological and scientific advisers to the section included a Canadian member of parliament, who is also a United Church minister, quoting William Stringfellow, Rachel Carson, and John Cobb; a theologian from Hong Kong who called for rejecting the «commander» image in Genesis of God giving shape and order to what he has made, in favor of the (female) «brooding spirit» image «which best addresses our current crisis»; and Larry Rasmussen of New York's Union Seminary, who linked the work of the Spirit with the growing environmental movement.

The signers raised concerns about the Assembly call for a coherent ecumenical theology, affirming the need for theological work but insisting that the «ecumenical movement needs a theology rooted in the Christian revelation as well as relevant to contemporary problems.»

yeah, i saw that coming, but i was interested in exactly where you stood and what theological ideas you are working with.

he taught in an underground seminary, worked with associates in the intelligence services for the overthrow of Hitler, helped Jews get out of the country, and kept up a steady correspondence with friends on questions spiritual, theological, and ethical.

To help in building a world in which people can live and work together across religious and cultural divides, we strive to be a primary resource in religious and theological studies for the academy, for religious communities, and in the public sphere.

I totally identify with something that T.F. Torrance wrote in his important work, Theological Science:

Given the difficulties of really working through such an issue within the synod, the seminary faculty took refuge in a second answer to the authority question: What was binding upon the synod's pastors and theological professors was the collection of Lutheran Confessional writings from the sixteenth century (gathered in the Book of Concord).

But there is, at least, an interpretation offered, and it is theological: God was at work in these events, bringing death to an institution that had outlived its usefulness and working new life beyond that death.

I am a little astonished at the ease with which a man who spent so many years immersed in serious theological dispute should suppose himself able to discern the hand of God at work in our world.

The young Luther did almost certainly suffer from a «troubled conscience» in some form, but it evidently did not cause his theological work to be dominated by the question, «How can I get a gracious God?»

What finally emerged in the summer of 1518 from this frantic rethinking — recall that Luther was trying to work through the theological issue while at the same time explaining to the world why he shouldn't be burned at the stake for heresy — seems to have been shaped primarily by reflection on texts such as Matthew 16:19: «Whatever you loose on earth is loosed in heaven.»

She studied theology part - time at Highland Theological College in Dingwall while working as a community social worker on Mull.

Letters and Papers from Prison is the work that has been most discussed in theological circles, and in the 1960s was much invoked (wrongly, I believe) by the «death of God» theologians and those promoting sundry versions of «religionless Christianity.»

While not wanting to over-read his work in a different direction, I would say there would seem to be some doubt as to how theological Barzun's idea of nature was.

[99][100] E. P. Sanders concludes that the Gospel of John contains an «advanced theological development, in which meditations on the person and work of Christ are presented in the first person, as if Jesus said them.»

In order for you to make the claim that the Bible is a «fictional work,» I must logically deduce that you must have spent years in deep theological study as well as studies in comparative religion and philosophy to make your claiIn order for you to make the claim that the Bible is a «fictional work,» I must logically deduce that you must have spent years in deep theological study as well as studies in comparative religion and philosophy to make your claiin deep theological study as well as studies in comparative religion and philosophy to make your claiin comparative religion and philosophy to make your claim.

In all of this he was doing creative theological work and articulating a significant theological vision but not primarily in the mode of speculative theologIn all of this he was doing creative theological work and articulating a significant theological vision but not primarily in the mode of speculative theologin the mode of speculative theology.

America is doing more than any other nation to spread the kind of political structures that can best prepare the globe for God's ultimate work of establishing the final kingdom, Webb contends, and he proceeds to quote from a variety of sources to support a role for providence in contemporary theological thinking while interpreting America's rise to world power as a divine blessing that comes with special responsibilities.

The conversations prepared the way for two years of work by a faculty committee that ended with a proposal — and a faculty consensus — that theological education at Candler should be contextual in all aspects.

This work may be most easily seen in the report of the Sixth Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies (1977), published as Sanctification and Liberation (Nashville: Abingdon, 1981) and edited by Theodore Runyon of Emory University.

At this time, I was working as an editor, where I sought out spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes in newsletters, theological journals, books, commentaries, and websites.

Under the influence of the recent varieties of liberation theologies we are learning to appreciate this way of theologizing, and some of the more creative work in the interpretation of Wesley and the Wesleyan tradition has drawn on correlations of theological method with the liberation theologians.

Heidegger himself of course resolutely denies anthropological intentions and refuses to let his work be interpreted in relation to Christian theological problems.

Some theologians in the Wesleyan tradition, especially those most under the influence of neo-evangelicalism, in the early years of the post-World War II Evangelical Theological Society attempted to work in the neo evangelical coalition.

First, feminist theologians are drawing on women's everyday lives and especially the dynamics of God's grace working in and through them as sources for theological reflection.

Some lose their beliefs in theological college, when they are exposed for the first time to the work of Biblical scholars and sophisticated theologians.

Evangelicals who are receptive to and seek to appropriate the work of such writers as Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and others also direct theological reflection in the same tidal movements as postliberalism.

There it wasn't so much about deconstructing theological concepts for reconstructing a theoretical utopia, but in working side - by - side as partners in social transformation enterprises that fit the context of the communities the Spirit planted us in.

«We need to move toward a dialogical theology in which the praxis of dialogue together with that of human liberation will constitute a true locus theologicus, i.e., both a source and basis for theological work.»

So in order to really get somewhere in theological debate, the two sides must agree to discuss one passage at a time, and stick to it, camp upon it, walk around it, and work through it.

Holloway, «Slim» to most of his friends, spent his whole life in pastoral work but also managed, despite many obstacles and difficulties, to single - mindedly leave a far - sighted and remarkable theological and philosophical legacy for this millennium, surely the millennium of the harmony of Science and Religion, in which Christ is seen as the Master of both.

Over 60 years ago when it was still extraordinary for women to work out of the home in this country the mainline was making the theological case for women in ordained ministry against the overwhelming opposition of most Christians throughout history.

The translator's introduction points out that Fount of Knowledge is one of the most «important single works produced in the Greek patristic period,... offering as it does an extensive and lucid synthesis of the Greek theological science of the whole period.

I ran headlong into my own «sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity» just two weeks ago when I gave a lecture for a writers conference at Princeton Theological Seminary and in reference to Jesus» parable of the vineyard workers, described God as a «generous master» whom we serve with our faithful work.

In the third chapter this constructive work centres on questions of theological method.

One misses in Allison's work the theological and hermeneutical depth of a figure such as Brevard Childs.

Daniel Day Williams (1910 — 73) joined Hartshorne on the faculty at Chicago Theological Seminary in 1939 but he was no stranger to that milieu, having done pre-doctoral work there in the early thirties.

I say this because I realize that in what I have written it is not simply a matter of a dogmatic theologian commenting on the work of a disciplined historical critic; there are issues involved here which are neither purely theological nor historical; they touch the manner in which we understand our existence and our need, an existence and an understanding that we allow it possible that Christ has redefined for us.

When I would ask respondents to describe some theological topic in their working picture of reality, I translated their ongoing portrayal of life into abstract categories.

Noddings» answers to these questions have won her praise in feminist and leftwing circles; her book is hailed by Rosemary Ruether and Daniel Maguire as an «important contribution to philosophical ethics» and a work that should be «significant» in theological seminaries.

Her Understanding Early Christian Art has served as a fine introductory text to the field, while other works, such as Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early Christianity, tackle the complex theological problems surrounding the Christian desire to portray the divine.

It is notorious that the ineradicable ideas left in Descartes's mind after he had doubted everything were products of the philosophical and theological work, or more broadly of the cultural matrix, that had formed his mind.

These theological convictions about how God works in the world through particular communities that contain in their narrative life the seeds of their own — and the world's — redemption were the first source of Hopewell's interest in congregations.